"Published with the assistance of the Anniversary Endowment Fund of the University of North Carolina Press." "Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi." Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Social class in the American south -- Agriculture -- American Revolution -- Antiunionism and Right-to-Work Laws -- Asian Americans -- Black Elite and the Black Middle Class -- Civil Rights Movement -- Collective Memory -- Crime and Punishment -- Demagogues -- Education -- Environment -- Ethnicity -- Foodways -- Free Blacks -- Gender -- Honor -- Humor -- Industrialization and Deindustrialization -- Industrialization, Employment, and Organized Labor -- Jews -- Labor, Geography of -- Latinos -- Latino Workers -- Literature -- Lynching -- Middle Class, Development of -- Migration -- Music -- Place and Space -- Political Behavior -- Populist Movement -- Poverty -- Race and Labor, since 1865 -- Racial Attitudes -- Radicalism -- Radio, Television, and Film -- Reconstruction and Redemption -- Religion -- Secession, the Confederacy, and the Civil War -- Sharecropping and Tenancy -- Slaveholders, Black -- Slavery as a Class System -- Social Reform, 1932-1954 -- Southern Identity -- Sports -- Stereotypes, Female -- Stereotypes, Male -- Sunbelt South -- Tourism -- Upper Class, White -- Urbanization -- Voting Rights -- Welfare and Charity -- Women, White, Working-Class -- Women and Labor -- Working Class, Black -- American Federation of Labor -- Anti-Semitism -- Appalachia -- Artisans -- Bacon's Rebellion -- Black Belt -- Bluegrass Music -- Blues Music -- Braden, Carl, and Anne McCarty -- Campbell, Will -- Child Labor -- Citizens' Councils -- Civic and Historical Pageants and Pilgrimages -- Clubwomen -- Coal and Iron Workers -- Congress of Industrial Organizations -- Convict Lease System and Peonage -- Country Music -- Desertion during the Civil War -- Fraternal Orders -- Freedmen's Bureau -- Gated Communities -- General Textile Strike of 1934 -- Geophagia and Pica -- Global South -- Greenbackers -- Hamer, Fannie Lou -- Highlander Folk School / Highlander Research and Education Center -- Hillbillies, Crackers, Rednecks, and White Trash -- Horton, Myles -- Hunting and Fishing -- Indentured Servants -- Indian Removal, 1800-1840 --Industrial Workers of the World -- In-Migration -- Jacksonian Democracy -- Jazz -- Kester, Howard Anderson -- King, Martin Luther, Jr. -- Knights of Labor -- Ku Klux Klan and Other White Racist Organizations -- Longshoremen -- Lumber Workers -- Lumpkin, Grace -- Lumpkin, Katharine Du Pre -- Mardi Gras -- Mason, Lucy Randolph -- Memory, Appalachian -- Migrant Workers -- Military Academies -- Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers -- Mitchell, H.L. -- NASCAR -- New Deal -- New South, 19th-Century -- 1938 Economic Report on the South -- Oil Workers -- Operation Dixie -- Ozarks -- Pellagra -- Poultry Workers -- Railroad Workers -- Raper, Arthur -- Rap Music -- Readjusters Regulator Movement -- Rock 'n' Roll -- Service Workers -- Shape-Note Singing -- Share Croppers' Union and Southern Tenant Farmers' Union -- Socialism and Communism -- Southern Conference for Human Welfare / Southern Conference Educational Fund -- Southern Regional Council -- Southern Student Organizing Committee -- Spiritual and Gospel Music -- Steelworkers -- Textile Workers -- Timber and Naval Stores -- Tobacco Workers -- Washington, Booker T. -- Wells- Barnett, Ida B. -- West, Don -- Williams, Claude -- Yeomanry -- "You Might Be a Redneck If."
Summary:
"This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture offers a timely, authoritative, and interdisciplinary exploration of issues related to social class in the South from the colonial era to the present. With introductory essays by J. Wayne Flynt and by editors Larry J. Griffin and Peggy G. Hargis, the volume is a comprehensive, stand-alone reference to this complex subject, which underpins the history of the region and shapes its future. In 58 thematic essays and 103 topical entries, the contributors explore the effects of class on all aspects of life in the South--its role in Indian removal, the Civil War, the New Deal, and the civil rights movement, for example, and how it has been manifested in religion, sports, country and gospel music, and matters of gender. Artisans and the working class, indentured workers and steelworkers, the Freedmen's Bureau and the Knights of Labor are all examined. This volume provides a full investigation of social class in the region and situates class concerns at the center of our understanding of Southern culture."--Publisher's website.
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